The second, The Death Archives, by Mayhem’s other founder, bassist Jørn ‘Necrobutcher’ Stubberud, is a personal recounting of Mayhem’s first 10 years, along with reams of photographic documentation.īoth plot their course from the inauspicious yet ambitious formation of the band through the suicide by gunshot of Swedish vocalist Per Yngve Ohlin, known infamously as Dead and personally as Pelle, to Necrobutcher’s decision to remove himself from the band – before returning three years later – and Euronymous’s murder. The first is the long-awaited, and feared, movie, Lords Of Chaos, directed by one-time drummer for proto-black metallers Bathory and celebrated video director, Jonas Åkerlund. In an act of fate worthy of the tale at their heart, two very different, but often complementary histories of Mayhem have emerged.
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